THE STROUTHOPODES (or Struthopodes) were a tribe of giant-footed Indian men whose womenfolk had tiny sparrow-like feet. Hence their name "the sparrow-foots."

The name is sometimes spelt Struthopods in English.

Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7. 25 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :
"Eudoxus [of Cnidus, Greek writer C2nd B.C.] says that in the south of India men have feet eighteen inches long and the women such small feet that they are called Struthopodes (Sparrow-feet)."